Word: hen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...December 1942 New England Quarterly. And it turns out that Puritans were by no means the prudes we imagined. One Boston minister, for example, criticized “that Popish conceit of the Excellency of Virginity.” Court records, Morgan writes, reveal that “[w]hen fornication, adultery, rape, or even buggery and sodomy appeared, [members of the Puritan establishment] were not surprised, nor were they so severe with the offenders as their codes of law would lead one to believe. Sodomy, to be sure, they usually punished with death; but rape, adultery, and fornication they...
...monitors are for-profit, some with a history of doing business with the companies they’re monitoring. Especially given the recent record of failed corporate self-supervision and political sponsorship (think Enron), Harvard should know better than to let the fox guard the hen house...
...Brighton's large gay population generates an infectious blend of style and fun, but then this Sussex city has attracted pleasure seekers since the Prince Regent and his rakish following decamped there in the early 19th century. Today, boisterous hen parties, clubbers and convention delegates come for dining and nightlife that reach metropolitan levels of sophistication?without the associated expense...
...time given)—An officer was dispatched to the area of Blanchard Road near the White Hen Pantry after a report of gunshots. Nothing was found. Two males setting off fireworks were the likely cause...
...audibly chewing it. In Cui Xiuwen's three-hour Metro No. 2, a woman on a Beijing subway peels bits of skin off her lips as other passengers come and go. For more excitement, there's Yang Zhenzhong's 922 Grains of Rice, in which a rooster and a hen peck away at 922 grains of rice while male and female voices tally his and her scores. Best of the lot is Yang Fudong's 13-minute Backyard, Hey, Sun is Rising, following the irresistibly silly antics of four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets...